This notice actually appeared on the front door of my house for a while.
As with the notice above, notice & consent online is worse than a fail. It’s absurd. But it helps to have sources that explain how ceremonies promising privacy online will always fail when those running the ceremonies are also incentivised to violate their privacy commitments (or not to make them in the first place). I’m including coverage of adjacent and dependent topics (e.g. adtech and CRM/CX). Of course, this is all toward setting the stage for MyTerms. Feel free to add your own.
A list of scholarly (or simply serious) sources:
- Automated Large-Scale Analysis of Cookie Notice Compliance
- Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising
- Do Not Track Initiatives: Regaining the Lost User Control
- Usability and Enforceability of Global Privacy Control
- Websites’ Global Privacy Control Compliance at Scale and Over Time
- SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking
- Do Cookie Banners Respect my Choice? Measuring Legal Compliance of Banners from IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework
- Can I Opt Out Yet? GDPR and the Global Illusion of Cookie Control
- Dark Patterns after the GDPR: Scraping Consent Pop-ups and Demonstrating their Influence
- Cookie Disclaimers: Dark Patterns and Lack of Transparency
- Analyzing Cookies Compliance with the GDPR
- Automating Cookie Consent and GDPR Violation Detection
- Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
- Opted Out, Yet Tracked: Are Regulations Enough to Protect Your Privacy?
- Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out (popular summaries and related work)
- A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third-Party Tracking in Android Apps
- To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
- Active Consent Transparency Violation Fine Counter
Don Marti’s writings:
- surveillance pricing in the news
- Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful
- Perfectly targeted advertising would be perfectly worthless
- Can privacy tech save advertising?
- Don’t punch the monkey. Embrace the Badger.
- A fresh start for advertising and the web?
- 5 five-minute steps up
- Interest dashboard?
- Who’s taking all the online ad money? (it’s not me)
- Surveillance marketing meets sales norms
- Unpacking privacy
- Adversariality and web ads
- We’re All Gun Nuts Now, So We Had Better Get Good At It
- Newspaper dollars, Facebook dimes
Iain Henderson’s writings:
- The ‘My’ Protocol Stack
- MyTerms and the Great Online Privacy Re-boot
- MyTerms as an Independence Movement
- MyTerms is for our Children
- Ten Ways in Which People Benefit from Data Portability
- We need a new approach to Data Portability for it to work at the scale required for Growth
- We All Need a Personal Private Digital Space of Our Own
- An Emerging Framework for Personal Fiduciary Agents
- How many AI Agents will we each have? and why…
- “Of course, it’s all about the data” (…and where do I find the Magical Data Quality Fairy?)
- Putting that R back in practice – “MeRM”?
- Addressing Two of the Web’s Fundamental Problems with IEEE7012 and FedID
- My Terms Overview from IIW 40
- Iain Henderson – The Personal Data Eco-System
- The Case for Personal Information Empowerment – The Rise of the Personal Data Store (Mydex white paper)
My own writings:
- People vs. Adtech (which includes many of the items below)
- Let’s use the “No Track” button we already have
- How adtech, not ad blocking, breaks the social contract
- Wanted: Online Pubs Doing Real (and therefore GDPR-compliant) Advertising
- Toward no longer running naked through the digital world
- We’ve seen this movie before
- How the cookie poisoned the Web
- Apple vs (or plus) Adtech, Part I
- A Cure for Corporate Addiction to Personal Data
- Are you in charge of what you buy, or is it vice versa?
- Freedom vs. Tracking
- A Way to Peace in the Adblock War
- Why #NoStalking is a good deal for publishers
- Why personal agency matters more than personal data
- The Wurst of the Web
- Personal scale
- Time for THEM to agree to OUR terms
- Choosing Your Terms
- Solutions: Choose Your Agreement and #NoStalking
- #NoStalking (P2B1) agreement
- MyTerms agreements overview
- A Way off the Ranch
- Help Us Cure Online Publishing of Its Addiction to Personal Data
- Cookies That Go the Other Way
- Privacy Is Still Personal
- Advertising 3.0
- A Brand Advertising Restoration Project
- Privacy is personal. Let’s start there.
- The Data Bubble
- Beyond the Web
- The real waste is adtech — but waste isn’t a strong enough word
- How True Advertising Can Save Journalism From Drowning in a Sea of Content
- MyTerms (has many listings)
Also Terms and Conditions May Apply, a 2013 documentary by Cullen Hobeck.
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